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μαλακός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μαλακός μαλακοῦ

Structure: μαλακ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. the passive partner in a male homosexual act, catamite
  2. male prostitute (whose customers are also male)

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὅστισ δὲ ἀγαθὸσ τοξότησ καὶ τούτῳ ὅμοιοσ, πρῶτον μὲν ἀκριβῶσ ὄψεται τὸν σκοπόν, εἰ μὴ σφόδρα μαλακόσ, εἰ μὴ στερρότεροσ τοῦ βέλουσ. (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 37:1)
  • "ὁ δὲ καρπὸσ ἐρυθρόσ, ὅμοιοσ διοσπύρῳ τὸ σχῆμα, τὸ δὲ μέγεθοσ ἡλίκον κύαμοσ, πλὴν τοῦ διοσπύρου μὲν ὁ πυρὴν σκληρόσ, τοῦ δὲ κεράσου μαλακόσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 345)
  • "Μάλακοσ δ’ ἐν τοῖσ Σιφνίων ὡρ́οισ ἱστορεῖ ὡσ τὴν Ἔφεσον δοῦλοι τῶν Σαμίων ᾤκισαν χίλιοι τὸν ἀριθμὸν ὄντεσ, οἳ καὶ τὸ πρῶτον ἀποστάντεσ εἰσ τὸ ἐν τῇ νήσῳ ὄροσ κακὰ πολλὰ ἐποίουν τοὺσ Σαμίουσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 81 1:91)
  • αὐτόσ τε δόξειν ἄνανδροσ καὶ μαλακόσ, οὐδ’ ἄλλωσ δοκῶν εὐτολμότατοσ εἶναι τοῖσ πολλοῖσ. (Plutarch, Cicero, chapter 19 5:2)
  • καὶ προῆλθεν ὁ Δημοσθένησ ἔχων λαμπρὸν ἱμάτιον ἐστεφανωμένοσ, ἑβδόμην ἡμέραν τῆσ θυγατρὸσ αὐτοῦ τεθνηκυίασ, ὡσ ὁ Αἰσχίνησ φησί λοιδορῶν ἐπὶ τούτῳ καὶ κατηγορῶν αὐτοῦ μισοτεκνίαν, αὐτὸσ ὢν ἀγεννὴσ καὶ μαλακόσ, εἰ τὰ πένθη καὶ τοὺσ ὀδυρμοὺσ ἡμέρου καὶ φιλοστόργου ψυχῆσ ἐποιεῖτο σημεῖα, τὸ δὲ ἀλύπωσ φέρειν ταῦτα καὶ πρᾴωσ ἀπεδοκίμαζεν. (Plutarch, Demosthenes, chapter 22 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. the passive partner in a male homosexual act

  2. male prostitute

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